BACKGROUND The levels of 19 elements (As, Be, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni, Pb, Se, Tl, U, V, Zn) from sixteen different Argentine production sites of unifloral [eucalyptus (Eucaliptus rostrata), chilca (Baccharis salicifolia), Algarrobo (Prosopis sp.), mistol (Ziziphus mistol) and citric] and multifloral honeys were measured with the aim to test the quality of the selected samples...

Estuaries are highly degraded ecosystems throughout the world. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the biology and ecology, and the effects of contaminants on mangrove-associated micro and macroalgae, and assess their suitability in the biological assessment of estuaries. Ecological surveys over two seasonal cycles, in four estuaries in New South Wales, Austraba, the Cooks, Parrama...

BACKGROUND In the Golestan Cohort Study that was launched to investigate the causes of esophageal cancer, a complete biospecimen bank was established for storage of collected blood, urine, hair, and nail samples. The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of nail samples as a biomarker of selected trace elements status. METHODS Thirty toenail samples were selected randomly from...

The widespread use of drugs is a global problem which affects not only humans but also the environment around them, as research showing presence these substances in different environmental matrices, like air, water, and soil. Above all, due to remarkable pharmacological properties drugs, it discovered that organisms accidentally exposed aquatic organisms, undergo behavioral physiological change...

Air pollution is one of the most important problems threatening organic life and ecosystem throughout world. Among components air pollution, ones are heavy metals that can be toxic carcinogenic even at low concentrations nutrient elements harmful when high concentrations. Thus, monitoring metal in very plants widely used as biomonitor for this purpose. However, which organs more suitable determ...

Monitoring the negative impacts of trace metals is crucial to assess health and stability ecosystems. In salt marshes, halophyte plants were reported as possible bioaccumulators these elements. The aim this work was explore bioaccumulation potential Bolboschoenus maritimus a tool for monitoring presence in coastal environments. collected from brackish water lagoon, lead, cadmium, nickel seasona...

The fouling barnacle Amphibalanus improvisus is a cosmopolitan biomonitor of trace metal bioavailability in coastal waters of reduced salinity such as estuaries or the Baltic Sea. Bioavailability of Ag, As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, V and Zn to A. improvisus was investigated in July 2014 at 15 sites along the Iranian coast of the understudied, yet biologically unique, Caspian Sea. In gene...